Genuario Belmonte

Genuario Belmonte has two second-level degrees in biological sciences and natural sciences. He works as First Professor of zoology and the Director of the Museum of the Environment at the University of the Salento (Lecce, Italy). Belmonte published more than 200 papers (120 scientific, extended; 75 abstracts/contributions to congresses and conferences; 16 divulgative papers; 12 divulgative books; 7 interviews) in the following fields of interest: systematics and biogeography of Copepoda (Crustacea), life cycles and resting stages of zoo plankton, ecology of the plankton and of confined coastal areas, underwater marine speleobiology, scientific divulgation and natural history museology, and ecotourism.